MOOD DETECTOR: A rock mantis shrimp (Neogonodactylus oerstedii) may communicate its fitness and aggression to rivals through the use of UV- reflective spots on the sides of its body. A.M. FRANKLIN, ET AL., ROY SOC OPEN SCI, doi:10.1098/rsos.160329, 2016.
—Amanda Franklin, Tufts University grad student, on the Royal Society Open Science paper she recently coauthored describing a novel sensory behavior in a marine invertebrate (TuftsNow, August 3)
—Physicist Alipasha Vaziri of Rockefeller University talking about his recently published Nature Communications paper showing that human beings could detect flashes of light from a single photon (Nature, July 19)
—California Institute of Technology geophysicist Joe Kirschvink, on his quest to show experimentally that human beings posses sensory apparatuses that help them perceive Earth’s magnetic field (June 23)
—University of Cambridge animal behaviorist Corina Logan, on the need for open access in science publishing (From “The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists,” Vox, July 14)
—Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accepting her party’s nomination ...
